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41. Knock Down Barriers And Achieve CIN/ACO Success 9/26/2018

    A CIO of a large health system, that includes a payer, shared the following frustrating reality. While Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) allowed ACO executives access to their claims data, CMS refused to send that same claims data to the independent delivery networks (IDNs) within the health system. Why? All due to the lack of access controls at the IDN level. For the CIO and C-Suite team, this makes for a significant data challenge. A health system that owns an CIN/ACO and faces this common situation, hits barriers in strategic planning and data IT support across the network.

42. Why Health IT Teams Need Cloud Management Now More Than Ever 7/21/2020

    The global healthcare cloud computing market is expected to reach $55 billion by 2025, up from $20 billion in 2018. Historically, hospitals have slowly migrated singular applications, like EMRs or contact center technology, to the cloud. But in the wake of COVID-19, healthcare professionals are looking to scale healthcare services rapidly – making the move to cloud even more imperative.

43. The Talking Warehouse: Understanding How Voice Unleashes Higher Performance In Product Distribution 5/11/2011

    While voice-directed workflow has been a force in distribution operations for nearly two decades, it is still considered a young technology by many supply chain professionals. In a recent independent survey, only one in five supply chain managers claimed an awareness of voice. By Roger Byford and David Maloney, Intermec, Inc.

44. Cybercrime Is Bad For Your Health 5/18/2016

    Hardly a week goes by without a hospital, healthcare provider or health insurer falling prey to some form of ransomware — a big problem that is only getting bigger. Leading hospitals such as Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, MedStar Health’s Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and Methodist Hospital in Henderson, KY have fallen victim to these attacks. The recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) saw ransomware attacks rise 16 percent overall this year and, according to Brookings Center for Technology Innovation study, 23 percent of all data breaches occurred in healthcare, tripling over the last two years alone.

45. You're Reopening! Here's What Your Patients Need To Know 6/1/2020

    All over the country, businesses are cautiously opening back up. This includes healthcare. While some healthcare organizations never fully closed, all were impacted by the shelter-in-place orders that have happened across the country. And as we return to our “new normal,” there are a few things that you need to help patients understand. I was recently chatting with a friend of mine who helps run a fairly large healthcare organization. 

46. Medical Transcription: Proven Accelerator Of EHR Adoption 9/22/2009
    The medical transcription/clinical documentation sector is well positioned to serve as a faster bridge and solution to enabling greater EHR adoption. By ahdi
47. Ransomware: Another Sign Of Security Challenges 4/19/2016

    A new security trend has emerged in the healthcare sector: ransomware attacks. In recent weeks, three large hospitals have been infected with malware that demands money in order to decrypt sensitive data. Most recently, Kentucky-based Methodist Hospital had malware spread across their entire internal networks. The company resorted to shutting down all of its machines in order to scan each one for infections. As of this writing, they had not paid any ransom.

48. How Medical Device Companies Can Safeguard Vital IP 5/13/2019

    Stolen IP represents a significant subsidy since the thieves don’t have to bear the costs of developing or licensing that technology or manufacturing process. If a competitor steals a company’s product-related trade secrets, it can beat that company to market with a new and innovative product, undercutting the victim company’s market share.

49. Shifting Towards Virtual Care, But What Is Virtual Care? 9/28/2020

    If patients of past generations could get a quick peek into the incredible changes that have taken place in the healthcare industry, they would likely be astounded. One big change is that of virtual care. Today, it is not only possible but often preferable for patients to receive care without ever seeing a doctor in person. And while the shift to virtual care has been gaining momentum for some time, the pandemic has only accelerated this process.

50. Technological Innovations To Promote Patient Safety, Engagement 10/13/2015

    In recent years, clinicians and hospitals have paid increasing attention to safety in the care experience and avoidance of preventable adverse events (PAEs). Of course, the practice of medicine is both an art and a science, and is thus subject to human error. But with a “product” as critical and as delicate as human health, a commitment to the prevention of error — and to adopting the necessary tools to be successful — must be a top priority. Lessons from the industry may be helpful to those of us in the healthcare community. Smart businesses, such as manufacturing operations, have an obligation to mitigate risk of error. More than nine out of ten workplace accidents are the result of human error, so companies often rely on systems processes — essentially, checklists based on best practices — to establish safety protocols. By Michael Gropper, M.D., Ph.D.